Trier high bunker
Five high bunkers have been preserved in the city of Trier . In addition to the bunker at Augustinerhof with mounted flat bunker, these are the House bunker in Trier-Feyen / Weismark , the angular tower bunker in Trier West , which today is located on the site of the power station, the House bunker in Trier-Nord , primarily used today as a rehearsal room for bands and the box bunker in Trier-Euren on the corner of St. Helena and Pestalozzistraße.
The high bunker in the city center
The high bunker in the city of Trier at the Augustinerhof right next to the town hall is an unfinished bunker that lies above the surface of the earth. It is 38 m high and is a listed building . Immediately next to the tower of the bunker is a flat bunker with only one visible above-ground floor, which was built at the same time as the bunker and was originally connected to it. The entire complex still has two basement floors. Furthermore, appropriate facilities for energy supply and communication as well as a drinking water well were planned.
The facility was built next to the town hall at the request of the state in 1942 during World War II . It was intended to protect city officials and civilians from air raids. The bunker was used but was never completely finished. To this day, the machines of the ventilation system are unassembled inside. On the unfinished roof you can easily see the pointed roof shape, which should prevent a direct hit from a bomb, as it would then ricochet off the roof and hit the ground next to the bunker. During the Second World War, it housed the management of the fire brigade, technical emergency aid and the city administration.
The planning architect Heinrich Otto Vogel had already considered the design of the bunker after the war: the outer walls were to be clad with sandstone and the roof covered with slate. The bunker would have fitted into the cityscape through a certain resemblance to historical buildings, and the construction of a street near it was planned, which would have been oriented towards the mighty tower. These measures were never carried out, however, and removal of the bunker after the end of the war was out of the question because of the neighboring buildings, which make demolition impossible.
After the Second World War, the interior of the originally associated flat bunker was separated because the French troops stationed in Trier used it as a telecommunications center. A floor with office space was also added to it. Plans to expand the bunker as a civil defense facility in the event of a nuclear war were not implemented because of the high costs.
In 1980 and January 2005, the wire covering on the roof structure was renewed to prevent concrete parts from falling down. Considerations about better possible uses failed because of the massive walls and narrow, windowless interiors. Likewise, there were no repeated measures suggested to improve the appearance of the bunker. In the meantime, the bunker serves as a prop store for the neighboring city theater. Until the end of the Cold War, the flat bunker housed an ABC reporting and evaluation point for civil protection.
literature
- Burkhard Breves: Comments on the bunker at the Augustinerhof in Trier , in: Neues Trierisches Jahrbuch 1990, pp. 163–169 u. Fig. 30–34.
- Hochbunker Augustinerhof, in: Architekturführer Trier , ed. v. Jens Fachbach, Stefan Heinz, Georg Schelbert, Andreas Tacke, Imhoff, Petersberg 2015, pp. 103-104.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 5 ″ N , 6 ° 37 ′ 59 ″ E